Hunter Biden is slated to plead guilty to a couple of misdemeanor charges on taxes and a gun felony, and he will do no jail time. Because that's the way our justice system works, gang. That's how this all works. What exactly did Hunter Biden do? Well, according to a form that has now been filed by the U.S. attorney, David Weiss, in late 2018, Hunter was a crack user. And his own autobiography reveals that he was regularly abusing crack. When he filed out paperwork to buy a gun in 2018, he was in the midst of abusing crack, which is not a crime. And yet, he has been charged with making a false statement on a document as well as illegal possession of a firearm. Now, what does that have to do with Joe Biden and Ukrainian money flowing into the Biden family coffers? Is this a scam? Or is this just the beginning of a potentially massive corruption scandal that could go on for years to come? Or could this be the first in a series of scandals that will be exposed in the future? Or will this just be treated as an isolated incident? Or maybe it's all a long-term saga that Joe Biden will have to pay the price for his crimes? Or maybe Joe Biden is a crook, and Joe Biden isn't even a crooper at all. What do you think of Hunter Biden's plea deal, and what does it mean for the future of our criminal justice system, and how will it affect the Biden legacy? -- -- ENJOYING IT, GUARANTEED WELL-LITERANCE? -- -- FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER LINKED TO OUR INSTAGRAM AND PODCAST PODCYCLOGS AND LINKED IN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP? AND TWITTER AND GOT A FRIENDS TO FOLLOW ME ON INSTA AND FACEBOOK AND LINKS IN THE PAST AND POTTER AND SOCIAL SUPPORTED IN THE LINKS TO CHECK A LINK TO A SOCIAL PEDCAST? AND OTHER THAN THAT INCLINED IN A FACEBOOK CHIP AND SOCIETY AND SOCYPE AND OTHER SOCIAL LINKS AND PEDIATE A LINK? AND A PEDGED IN SOCIAL CHEATING TO SOCYPRONE AND A SOCYCLE AND A VIDEO AND A PLACE TO TELL A PUNTER AND A MONTH OF SOCYNE AND SOCATE AND A THIRD PLACE IN A PEEOT AND A BIRD RATING IN A VOTER MAKING A VOTE IN A PLOTE?
00:00:25.000quote, in a close, please find two information to be docketed in criminal matters involving
00:00:29.000the above reference defendant. The first information charges the defendant with tax offenses, namely
00:00:34.000two counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax in violation of 26 U.S. code at 7203.
00:00:39.000The defendant has agreed to plead guilty to both counts on the tax information.
00:00:42.000The second information, these are basically the charges, charges the defendant with a firearm offense.
00:00:47.000Namely, one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance in violation of 18 U.S.
00:00:57.000The defendant has agreed to enter a pretrial diversion agreement with respect to the firearm information.
00:01:02.000So in other words, he is going to essentially receive no jail time, and instead, he is going to go on probation for a while.
00:01:08.000According to the Washington Post, that tentative agreement with federal prosecutors is to plead guilty to two minor tax crimes and admit to the facts of a gun charge under terms that would likely keep him out of jail.
00:01:17.000Any proposed plea deal would have to be approved by a federal judge.
00:01:20.000The agreement caps an investigation opened in 2018 during the Trump administration and has generated intense interest and criticism since 2020 from Republican politicians who accuse the Biden administration of reluctance to pursue the case.
00:01:31.000What is the most likely thing that is happening here?
00:01:32.000Well, the cynic might say that basically the DOJ is not hitting Hunter Biden with the book.
00:01:38.000They're basically going out of their way to hit him for a couple of tax infractions and a gun charge in order to avoid delving more deeply into the alleged corrupt scheme that involved Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and Ukrainian money flowing into the Biden family coffers.
00:01:50.000That would be the very cynical take on this, is this would be a mask, basically.
00:02:00.000And we all just go about our business and pretend that the DOJ is absolutely enforcing the law in even-handed fashion.
00:02:06.000According to the Washington Post, the court papers indicate the younger Biden has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018.
00:02:14.000The combined tax liability is roughly $1.2 million in those two years alone.
00:02:20.000So first of all, that's a lot of money for a misdemeanor tax charge.
00:02:26.000And that does raise serious questions as to where is Hunter Biden picking up enough money that he owes a million to to the federal government?
00:02:33.000That means that somebody was paying him, maybe the Ukrainians, maybe the Chinese.
00:02:37.000Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of probation.
00:02:39.000For those counts, Biden's representatives have said he previously paid back the IRS what he owes.
00:02:43.000Additionally, Biden plans to admit to illegally possessing a weapon following his 2018 purchase of a handgun.
00:02:48.000As part of that admission, he expects to be entered into a diversion program, a less punitive form of sentence typically applied to people with substance abuse problems.
00:02:55.000So, basically, he was doing drugs, and he testified on a form that he is not a drug addict when he obtained the gun.
00:03:01.000And then, because he was doing drugs, they're saying he didn't know what he was doing, and therefore he's going to be sent to a diversion program.
00:03:07.000So, I suppose that means everyone who lies on that form, who in fact was a drug abuser, should be sent to a diversion program as opposed to jail.
00:03:14.000That'd be the even-handed approach, no?
00:03:16.000In all, prosecutors would recommend two years of probation and diversion conditions.
00:03:19.000If Biden successfully meets the conditions of the diversion program, the gun charge would then be removed from his record at the end of the period.
00:03:26.000The gun purchase that led to the criminal charge happened in late 2018 at a time when by his own telling and his own autobiography, because Hunter's an idiot, he was regularly abusing crack.
00:03:34.000When he filed out paperwork to buy the gun, he denied using drugs or having a drug problem, exposing him to a potential charge of making a false statement on the document as well as illegal gun possession once he acquired the weapon.
00:03:43.000Biden owned the gun for less than two weeks because his then-girlfriend threw it away.
00:03:47.000Now again, I guess the charges don't include the throwing the gun into a trash can somewhere, which is apparently illegal as well.
00:03:54.000That is not something that typically you are supposed to be doing, and you will recall that there was a lot more involved than just that.
00:04:06.000Eventually, that bill is going to come due.
00:04:08.000Either it's going to come due in the form of higher interest rates that we're currently paying on our bonds, and we're going to have to pay all of that back.
00:04:13.000And that means we're going to have to either inflate the currency, or we're going to have to increase the taxes.
00:04:17.000And when that sort of stuff happens, you probably should be diversified out of the American dollar.
00:04:22.000You should be worried about stagnation in the stock market.
00:04:24.000At the very least, you should have some of your assets in precious metals.
00:04:28.000Times like these are a great reminder to diversify a portion of your savings into gold.
00:04:33.000They're who I buy my gold from, so do thousands of other concern savers.
00:04:36.000As Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America are banding together to try to create alternative forms of currency so that they don't actually have to rely on the American dollar, the value of the dollar over the course of the next 20 years, well, it's in question.
00:04:46.000At the very least, you need to diversify the same way that all these countries are.
00:05:00.00098 right now. Again, that's been to 98 98 98. In fact, according to Politico, going back to
00:05:07.000March of 2021 on October 23rd 2018, President Joe Biden's son Hunter and daughter-in-law Haley
00:05:12.000were involved in a bizarre incident in which Haley took Hunter's gun and threw it in a
00:05:15.000trash can behind a grocery store only to return later to find it gone.
00:05:19.000The Delaware police began investigating concern the trash can was a cross from a high school, and the missing gun could be used in a crime.
00:05:25.000But a curious thing happened at the time Secret Service agents approached the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun.
00:05:30.000and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people.
00:05:33.000The gun store owner refused to supply the paperwork, suspecting that Secret Service officers wanted to destroy the paperwork.
00:05:39.000The owner, Ron Palmieri, later turned over the paperwork to the ATF.
00:05:43.000The Secret Service had had no record of its agents investigating the incident, and Joe Biden, who was not under protection at the time, said through a spokesperson he had no knowledge of any Secret Service involvement.
00:05:52.000Still mysterious as to what exactly the Secret Service was doing, Lying on the form was, in fact, a felony because the transaction record asks, quote, Are you an unlawful user of or addicted to marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug or any other controlled substance?
00:06:05.000So I guess they are not filing a charge on the throwing away a gun next to a high school.
00:06:11.000And we still are not going to get to the bottom of did the Secret Service then go and try and clean up Hunter Biden's problems?
00:06:16.000Later that day, Haley informed Hunter of what she'd done.
00:06:18.000He instructed her to retrieve the gun, according to the police report.
00:06:20.000When Haley returned to the grocery store, she found the gun was missing from the garbage bin and reported the issue to the store.
00:06:25.000Police received calls from the store's general manager and from another person, according to the report.
00:06:30.000Arriving on the scene, Delaware State Police retrieved security camera footage from the store and interviewed the store management.
00:06:37.000At the time, the FBI was still monitoring Hunter Biden because of the tax investigation.
00:06:42.000So, apparently, All of this is now going to result in Hunter Biden not going to jail and getting probation for a couple years, which sounds like just what would happen if Hunter Biden were like, you know, a poor person.
00:06:53.000If Hunter Biden were a poor, unconnected person, this is probably exactly what would happen to him, is that he would fail to pay his taxes, amounting to $1.2 million for two years.
00:07:01.000And then he would, you know, be high while signing gun forms and then have his girlfriend throw away the gun and then activate Secret Service to clean it up.
00:07:08.000And he would be charged with a diversionary program.
00:07:11.000That is probably exactly what would happen if it were you.
00:07:16.000So, you know, the DOJ does the right thing in charging Hunter Biden, but then they give him a sweet plea deal, which is the way that it works.
00:07:22.000The thing is that you remember that Joe Biden has been lying about this for years.
00:07:25.000So Joe Biden was asked, like, in 2021, what's the deal with Hunter?
00:07:28.000He's like, Hunter is the smartest person I know, and he's never done anything wrong.
00:07:32.000Sir, there is something personal that's affecting you.
00:07:34.000Your son, while there's no ties to you, could be charged by your Department of Justice.
00:07:46.000And it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.
00:07:50.000Well, apparently Hunter is going to have to tell his dad something, because apparently he did a lot of things wrong.
00:07:55.000Just your quick reminder, you, a law-abiding gun-owning American citizen, you're a danger to the Republic, according to Joe Biden.
00:08:01.000You're a problem, because you have an AR-15 in your house.
00:08:04.000That's something that you should not be able to have, because you are a bad person, even though you're law-abiding and you've done nothing wrong.
00:08:09.000Hunter Biden, being a crack addict who bought a gun by falsely filling out a form, and then his girlfriend taking that gun and tossing it in a garbage can across the street from a high school, Hunter Biden, well, you know, it's a minor charge.
00:08:21.000It's going to be fun to watch as the media say that now avoiding taxes is a minor charge.
00:08:25.000Gun felonies are now minor charges because, of course, Hunter Biden is involved in all of that.
00:08:30.000And so it's no longer a very big deal.
00:08:32.000And it's not enough here for the DOJ to charge Hunter Biden.
00:08:36.000I mean, they theoretically should throw the book at him the same way that they are presumably going to throw the book at Donald Trump.
00:08:42.000Either you throw the book at everybody or you throw the book at nobody.
00:08:46.000So, you know, people on the left are now going to use this as the predicate to suggest that the Justice Department is doing the fair thing.
00:08:52.000After all, they charged Hunter Biden, did they not?
00:08:55.000Which means the charges against Donald Trump are now fully justified.
00:08:58.000This ignores the fact that Hunter Biden is in fact the son of the current President of the United States and not the current President of the United States himself, who is currently under investigation for mishandling classified material.
00:09:06.000It also ignores the fact that the deeper investigation into Joe Biden by the DOJ Would not be involving Hunter and his crack cocaine use while buying a gun.
00:09:14.000The deeper investigation would involve, you know, maybe bribery.
00:09:18.000Like that's the thing people want to know the details about, not this particular case.
00:09:22.000They're not throwing the book at Hunter, they're letting him off the hook.
00:09:25.000Now the case to be made, to be fair, for Hunter's legal team is that they cooperated with law enforcement.
00:09:29.000That as soon as this happened, Hunter Biden did the thing he's supposed to do and he shut up and he said to his legal team, go clean this up for me.
00:09:41.000But it does demonstrate the power of cooperating with federal law enforcement in these cases, as opposed to working at odds with them.
00:09:47.000Now, it doesn't mean that the federal law enforcement will always do what they are supposed to do.
00:09:50.000Again, I have grave suspicions, and I'm very cynical about the outcome of this particular case.
00:09:56.000But when juxtaposed with the behavior of President Trump, who is not taking the advice of his legal team, that's not a smart strategy, as it turns out.
00:10:04.000Again, two things can be true at once.
00:10:05.000DOJ can be deeply affected by politics and corruption.
00:10:09.000And also, the smart thing to do, listen to your lawyers.
00:10:11.000Speaking of which, Donald Trump was on Bret Baier's show last night.
00:10:15.000I've said it before, I'll say it again.
00:10:16.000Worst job in the world, Donald Trump's lawyer.
00:10:19.000Because if you are a lawyer, the first thing that you tell your client, particularly in a criminal case, but it's true in civil cases also, is shut up.
00:10:26.000Now, shut is like the very first rule.
00:10:28.000And by the way, it's not just lawyers who know this.
00:10:29.000If you've ever watched a cop show and you've ever seen a criminal defendant being taken into custody by the police, the first thing the lawyer shouts to them is, be quiet, don't say anything.
00:10:38.000One of the aspects of not saying things is don't go on national TV and say things about an ongoing criminal case.
00:10:46.000Because very likely you're going to say something that ends up in the criminal indictment.
00:10:50.000If you're his lawyers, you must have been pulling your hair out last night.
00:10:53.000And this does demonstrate not only that Donald Trump is not a good legal client, but it really leads to some serious issues for Donald Trump in the primary election.
00:11:01.000Okay, so all of this comes out in the Bret Baier interview.
00:11:03.000So it begins with Trump saying he doesn't have any worries about the federal indictment at all.
00:11:07.000Which, again, maybe that's true, maybe that's not, but here's the beginning of the interview.
00:11:11.000Mike Pence had documents that were classified.
00:11:23.000He shouldn't be saying that because he had classified documents.
00:11:26.000And immediately they said, oh, that's OK.
00:11:28.000And I suppose it's going to be OK with Biden, too, even though he has them in Chinatown, even though he has them in Delaware and probably a hundred times more than I have.
00:11:38.000So you're not worried about this case?
00:12:08.000Okay, when he says that all these other people, they had classified documents, that part is 100% true, and he's totally right about that.
00:12:13.000And if we actually read the statute to mean what the statute means, a lot of people would go to jail for mishandling classified information.
00:12:19.000The problem for Trump is, again, the obstruction charge.
00:12:22.000And by the way, Hillary should have gone to jail for the obstruction charge.
00:12:25.000It's very weird seeing a lot of the same people who say that Hillary should have gone to jail for the obstruction charge now flipping and saying that Trump should not be tried for the same charge.
00:12:34.000Not because, like me, you believe there should be one standard of justice, and if you're gonna let somebody off, you gotta let everybody off.
00:12:39.000But because the idea is that if Trump does it, it's okay, and if Hillary does it, it's not okay.
00:12:45.000But in any case, when he is talking about the Presidential Records Act, when he says all good lawyers believe what he is saying here, that's not true.
00:12:51.000He's apparently citing Tom Fitton, who's the head of Judicial Watch.
00:12:56.000The reality is, according to Annie McCarthy, who is a former federal prosecutor, the Presidential Records Act explicitly excludes agency records from the definition of presidential records.
00:13:06.000In other words, the president doesn't have the simple ability to simply say, all records are now presidential records.
00:13:10.000A CIA record comes across his desk, now it's magically a presidential record.
00:13:14.000So the Presidential Records Act does not apply in this particular case.
00:13:19.000Intelligence reports compiled by the Defense Intelligence Agency, CIA, NSA, FBI, other U.S.
00:13:27.000national security agencies are agency records.
00:13:29.000They are not presidential records by definition.
00:13:32.000The PRA excludes agency records from its coverage.
00:13:35.000And then you see him cite the so-called Clinton sock drawer case.
00:13:40.000And the Clinton sock drawer case is a little bit different.
00:13:44.000So there's a lawyer who wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal talking about the Clinton case.
00:13:49.000That case involved non-classified tape recordings that Clinton made with historian Taylor Branch in anticipation of compiling a history of his presidency.
00:13:58.000Bekashra says those are presidential records, but they are presidential records, and he should have archived them with the National Archives.
00:14:04.000And instead, he hid them in a White House sock drawer until his term ended, and then he took them with him.
00:14:08.000But NARA had civil law authority under the Presidential Records Act.
00:14:41.000And the reason I'm upset about this is because, again, if you're rooting for Trump to win the nomination and then win the presidency, you know what he needs to do?
00:14:50.000Not dump out all of his dirty laundry in public in the belief that somehow this is going to benefit him.
00:14:57.000As I've said before, first of all, every day you spend talking about Trump and his documents and election 2020s, today you're not talking about Joe Biden, who's the actual subject of the 2024 election.
00:15:06.000But beyond that, it demonstrates a lack of focus not to be talking about how you're going to win in 2024.
00:15:11.000Instead, you're out there essentially handing materials to the prosecutor.
00:16:26.000Again, freeroughgreens.com slash Ben Today or call 833-MYDOG33.
00:16:29.000Okay, so now we get to the actual meat of the interview with Brett Baier.
00:16:32.000And we've already set the predicate with the criminal charges that he's facing.
00:16:35.000So, Trump is asked by Brett Baier, why didn't you just give the boxes back?
00:16:39.000Now again, one of the charges in this case is that Donald Trump obstructed justice by telling his lawyers to turn all of the material over to the FBI and telling them that they had, and then he was simultaneously apparently shifting boxes around so his own lawyers did not know that he had classified material.
00:17:03.000In fact, the New York Times, of all, had a story just the other day that the only way NARA could ever get this stuff, this back, would be, please, please, please, could we have it back?
00:18:50.000Because they're literally accusing you of doing that thing, and then they subpoenaed those documents, and then they raided your house, and they found classified documents in the boxes that you were moving around.
00:19:00.000And then, he says the other thing, right?
00:19:02.000He's asked about the transcript, or he is saying that he could have declassified the documents, but he didn't, and he's waving around papers.
00:19:08.000And now he's claiming those are just random papers, that he's like waving around a Newsweek article or something.
00:19:12.000And he's saying, I could have declassified, but I didn't declassify this paper.
00:19:26.000Not admitting outside interviews with Brett Baier to the court records.
00:19:30.000If you think Jack Smith's prosecutorial team wasn't watching the interview last night and taking clips of this and then just getting ready to enter this into the prosecutorial record, you got it wrong.
00:19:39.000It's just, it's If you root for Donald Trump, if you're a fan of Donald Trump, you have to be thinking this is not a smart move.
00:19:55.000We'll get to more on this in just one second, because the interview didn't end there.
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00:20:37.000And this is really taxes that you shouldn't have paid in the first place and now you're getting a refund on the taxes that you did pay.
00:21:18.000You called your first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, dumb as a rock, and your first defense secretary, James Mattis, the world's most overrated general.
00:21:26.000You called your White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, milquetoast, and multiple times you've referred to your transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, as Mitch McConnell's China-loving wife.
00:22:05.000Well, I mean, you just went through a list.
00:22:07.000But don't forget, for every one you say, I had 10 that love us.
00:22:11.000Okay, but everybody in his cabinet he's been ripping on, so he has no answer to why he hires bad people, which is a problem when you are staffing up an administration that is facing down the deep state as he says they are.
00:22:21.000And by the way, he's not wrong about that.
00:22:23.000Like, wouldn't staffing be kind of an issue going forward to a 2024 election win?
00:22:27.000Like, even if he wins, he's going to have to staff up.
00:22:29.000Does his history in staffing make you sanguine about how well that's going to go?
00:22:33.000And then Brett Baier hits him with the 2020 election.
00:22:36.000He says, basically, listen, you lost the 2020 election.
00:22:39.000And Trump, of course, is never going to admit that he lost the 2020 election.
00:22:42.000But that begs the question, if you didn't lose the 2020 election, how do you plan to un-lose the next election?
00:22:48.000What do you say to that female independent suburban voter who feels that way, to win her back?
00:22:53.000First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot, okay?
00:22:59.000And if you look at all of the tapes, if you look at everything that you want to look at, you take a look at Truth to Vote, where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tapes, or let's go to Recent.
00:23:10.000Well, wait a minute, let's go to Recent.
00:23:26.000Okay, if you're somebody who wants to see the deep state defeated, if you want to see Donald Trump's enemies defeated, if you look to someone elected who's going to pardon Trump, if he actually ends up criminally convicted in the state of Florida, Then what's the plan?
00:23:40.000That's the big question going forward.
00:25:16.000China is actually in a very weak global position.
00:25:19.000That's being hidden by the cowardice of the Americans and the cowardice of the Europeans.
00:25:23.000But the reality is that China is in, they're in a demographic death spiral.
00:25:28.000Their R-rate, their reproduction rate in China is really, really low.
00:25:31.000Their fertility rate is currently 1.28 birds per woman, which means that they are going to have their population probably cut in half by about 2060.
00:25:39.000They're in a state of declining population.
00:25:43.000Their economy is built on the back of young workers.
00:25:47.000Those young workers are not going to exist thanks to their fertility crisis.
00:25:50.000Their entire economy is built on the back of foreign debt.
00:25:53.000They've taken out an enormous amount of debt.
00:25:56.000They've created entire shadow cities so that they can suck wealth away from their citizens.
00:26:15.000More than one in five young people is unemployed.
00:26:18.000China has tried many fixes over the last few years when its economy had flagged, like heavy borrowing to pay for roads and rail lines.
00:26:24.000And it's been huge sums on testing and quarantines during the pandemic.
00:26:27.000Extra stimulus spending now, with borrowed money, would spur a burst of activity but pose a difficult choice for policymakers already worried about the accumulated debt.
00:26:41.000China needs to right its economy, but there's no actual way for them to do that because Xi Jinping has been not opening the Chinese economy.
00:26:47.000He's afraid that if he were to continue to do so, the Chinese people might eventually want political reforms and throw him out of power.
00:26:57.000We're going to close all of our borders, we're going to produce everything domestically, and we're going to sink our own economy in the process.
00:27:03.000And the only way that we're going to make up for that is militarism.
00:27:06.000Which is why he's gotten very expansionist about, for example, Hong Kong, which used to be a major trading center that generated enormous revenue for the Chinese government.
00:27:13.000He's like, I'd rather just take that place over directly, as opposed to having the possibility that maybe they're going to push for more democratic change.
00:27:21.000The same thing, presumably, is true in Taiwan.
00:27:23.000It's the reason why they've become very, very threatening toward the Republic of Taiwan.
00:27:28.000With China in a very weak position, this is where you actually want to keep the pressure on.
00:27:32.000This is where you want to start reshoring a lot of the business that's being done in China.
00:27:38.000It is where, for example, you would like to keep the military pressure on by building up the American navies that we have the capacity to break a blockade of Taiwan should China choose to try and impose one.
00:27:48.000Now would be a good time to isolate China on the world stage by cutting bilateral trade agreements with all of the Southeastern Asian nations.
00:27:55.000Now would be an excellent time to do all those things.
00:27:57.000Instead, the Biden administration is trying the strategy of appeasement with the Chinese.
00:28:36.000Xi knows where the power in this relationship is, despite the fact that the United States is by orders of magnitude more powerful than China.
00:28:42.000And the notion that China is an actual competitor on the world stage for the United States in terms of like, oh man, they could overcome our economy.
00:29:14.000But instead, the Blinken-Biden team has decided to appease.
00:29:19.000According to the Wall Street Journal, China and the United States took steps to halt the downward spiral in relations, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping, though the two powers might have trouble keeping their global rivalry from swamping the tentative rapprochement.
00:29:31.000During two days of meetings in Beijing, Blinken and senior Chinese foreign policy officials agreed to more high-level talks, continuing the thaw after months of near-frozen contacts.
00:29:39.000They also promised to find common ground on increasing flights between the two countries and combating the flow of fentanyl into the United States.
00:29:44.000Now remember, A ton of the fentanyl that is pouring into the United States and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans is coming directly from China.
00:29:50.000It's going from China into Mexico and then into the United States.
00:29:54.000The COVID virus that shut down the world for two years was directly the Chinese government unleashing that thing on the world.
00:30:02.000They knew it was in Wuhan and they decided that they would rather cover their own asses by unleashing it on the world than actually prevent it from escaping China.
00:30:09.000And yet the Biden administration is playing all of this down.
00:30:13.000Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, Xi blessed the fledgling momentum in ties, granting Blinken a much-anticipated audience on Monday.
00:30:19.000What do you mean, granting Blinken an audience?
00:30:21.000Who the hell is Xi Jinping, an authoritarian dictator, to grant an audience to the Secretary of State of the most powerful country in world history?
00:30:30.000How about it should work the other way around?
00:30:33.000No apparent breakthroughs occurred on the range of contentious issues that have sent ties plummeting from U.S.
00:30:36.000support for Taiwan and restrictions on technology exports to China to Beijing's close relations with Moscow.
00:30:42.000Blinken said he raised concerns about Chinese intelligence activities in Cuba.
00:30:46.000And they were hoping to establish some sort of military communications channel between the countries to prevent some sort of misunderstanding over Taiwan, right?
00:30:52.000where China makes a move, it's a military exercise, but we think it's an actual attack on Taiwan,
00:31:22.000policy since the Kissinger era that the United States will not openly support independence for the Republic of Taiwan because that might precipitate war.
00:31:29.000At the same time, when you say to Xi Jinping, we do not, when you say openly and routinely, we do not support Taiwanese independence, Xi Jinping is going to find a pretext to now blockade the island.
00:31:39.000Right, what he's now going to do is he's going to say, it looks like the Taiwanese are about to declare independence.
00:32:01.000It's guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three joint communiques, the six assurances.
00:32:07.000We do not support Taiwan independence.
00:32:09.000We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.
00:32:13.000We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross-strait differences.
00:32:18.000We remain committed to meeting our responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act, including making sure that Taiwan has the ability to defend itself.
00:32:27.000Okay, now, he can continue saying that as much as he wants, but again, what Xi Jinping is going to take away from that is, if I just claim that the Taiwanese are moving toward independence, what exactly are the Americans going to do about it?
00:32:38.000Meanwhile, Blinken gave some happy talk about China's economic interests being tied to our own, which is strange, because obviously, Xi Jinping disagrees.
00:32:46.000We have many American companies that I met with, or at least their representatives here, including the Chamber of Commerce, that continue to be very interested business year and it's profoundly in our interest.
00:33:00.000I also noted to our our hosts that China's broad economic success is also in our interest.
00:33:11.000Um we have done a remarkable job rebounding from from COVID and having a growing economy.
00:33:20.000Um We also benefit tremendously when there is growth and progress in other countries, especially one of the world's largest economies.
00:33:30.000By the way, you want to know why so many foreign countries look at the United States and they say you're a hypocrite when you talk about human rights?
00:34:13.000It's imperative for for us, and it really should be for them to restore these military
00:34:18.000to military channels of communication for exactly the reason that you cited.
00:34:22.000We've seen a couple of very dangerous incidents in the last couple of weeks with their ships driving much too close to ours, their planes doing the same thing.
00:34:30.000That's the quickest path to an inadvertent conflict.
00:34:34.000I don't have any progress to report on re-establishing the military-to-military channels.
00:34:38.000China seems to be placing the blame on the U.S.
00:35:18.000Now, on the flip side, and as always with these high-stakes, high-level meetings, you have to take the good with the bad, the Chinese president did sit down with the U.S.
00:35:26.000Secretary of State, and that kind of contact, he of course also met with the foreign minister and other Chinese officials, is progress compared to where we were just a few weeks ago.
00:35:39.000In just one second, we'll get to the other problems with the Biden administration, including economic problems that are not going to go away first.
00:35:45.000Now, the fact of the matter is, with four kids and a baby, I got to tell you, last night, I was in charge of the baby for like the last half of the night.
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00:37:20.000Speaking of Joe Biden, he's not just blowing it on foreign policy.
00:37:22.000When it comes to the economy, the United States economy is still in serious trouble.
00:37:26.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the world's central banks underestimated inflation last year.
00:37:30.000Across affluent countries, central bankers are sharply lifting inflation forecasts, penciling in further interest rate increases, warning investors interest rates will stay high for some time.
00:37:37.000Some have set aside plans to keep interest rates on hold.
00:37:40.000Roughly a year into their campaign against high inflation, policymakers are some way away from being able to achieve victory.
00:37:45.000So inflation is still a part of the global economy.
00:37:47.000Thanks in large part to Joe Biden blowing more money into the American economy than ever seen in world history.
00:37:53.000Meanwhile, there's still a global tax mess that American companies are going to have to face, and that is largely thanks to the Biden administration.
00:37:59.000According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.-based multinational companies face a slow-brewing tax squeeze over the next few years.
00:38:04.000Congress is deadlocked over what to do.
00:38:06.000Companies are going to start paying higher taxes in foreign countries next year under a global minimum tax agreement thanks to the Biden administration trying to cut a 15% global minimum tax, which, again, is really, really bad.
00:38:22.000taxes on companies' foreign incomes will rise because of long-delayed provisions of the 2017 tax laws, according to Daniel Bund, president of the tax foundation that screws Titan each year.
00:38:33.000Much of the tax pileup stems from the global minimum tax deal U.S.
00:38:35.000officials helped negotiate in 2021 as a way to limit corporate tax avoidance.
00:38:41.000Governments in South Korea, Japan, EU, and U.K.
00:38:42.000are moving ahead with the deal's 15% tax floor.
00:38:45.000Swiss voters decide Sunday whether to accept it or not.
00:38:48.000But the United States isn't implementing the new taxes, igniting consequences for American companies.
00:38:52.000So again, the taxes, thanks to Joe Biden, are going up on all American companies, which means higher prices for everyone.
00:39:27.000In other news, Andrew Tate has been re-arrested.
00:39:30.000In Romania, again, we don't know all the evidence in this case, but it is worth noting, since of course he is a very hot topic all the time, according to the BBC, which of course hates Andrew Tate.
00:39:38.000Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has now been charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women.
00:39:45.000His brother Tristan and two associates also face charges, all of them denied the allegations.
00:39:50.000They were first arrested at their home in December, and then in March they were moved from custody to house arrest following a ruling by a Romanian judge.
00:39:56.000The indictment deposited with the Bucharest court says the defendants formed an organized criminal group in 2021 to commit human trafficking in Romania, but also including in the United States and the UK.
00:40:06.000It names seven alleged victims who say they were recruited by the Tate brothers through false promises of love and marriage.
00:40:10.000The alleged victims were later taken to buildings in a county in Romania where they were intimidated, placed under constant surveillance and control, and forced into debt, according to a statement from Romanian prosecutors, and then allegedly forced to take part in pornography, later shared on social media.
00:40:24.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then a quick thing that I hate.
00:40:26.000properties, cars, and more than $300 million in cryptocurrency.
00:40:30.000A Romanian judge has 60 days to inspect the case files before it can be sent to trial
00:40:50.000I love the irony of people embracing the woke agenda only to be forced to run away from
00:40:55.000So now Jamila Jamil, who pretends that she's a member of the LGBTQIA divided by sign community, she is weighing in on an awards show having gender neutral categories because she's afraid that If there are no gender categories anymore, women will be shut out.
00:41:11.000So what she's afraid of is men identifying as non-binary and now winning over women.
00:41:13.000Wait, but I thought that those are women.
00:41:38.000She says, if we now have enough non-binary talent to restructure entire awards shows, which is great, we should add, rather than run the accidental risk of erasing, no?
00:41:45.000I say this as an audience member, because I'm not going to be nominated for an Oscar anyway.
00:41:55.000So, fun to see all the members of the left suddenly realize that the rules they've constructed for themselves are garbage.
00:42:01.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:42:07.000Okay, so, you know body mass index is a pretty crude standard that basically just looks at your weight and your height and then tells you if you might be overweight or obese.
00:42:16.000And it's not dispositive in every situation, right?
00:42:18.000BMI doesn't take into account body type sometimes.
00:42:21.000There are athletes who, for example, have a lot of muscle mass and they're not particularly tall, and their BMI will be quote-unquote off the charts.
00:42:26.000You'll see that with athletes all the time, and so they have to actually recalibrate your body mass based on your athletic activity.
00:42:31.000But, as sort of a rough-and-ready guide for whether somebody needs to lose weight, BMI is useful.
00:42:37.000Well, now the American Medical Association is saying that body mass index is racist.
00:43:06.000It's not you going through and looking at the levels of fat in your actual system.
00:43:10.000It's basically a crude measure of maybe you need to lose weight, but doctors know that.
00:43:13.000Like, they can look at you and say, you look obese and your BMI is like 30, so probably you're obese.
00:43:19.000But the AMA says this is no longer good because it might be rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr The new policy was part of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health report, which evaluated the problematic history with BMI and explored alternatives.
00:43:33.000The report also outlined the harms and benefits of using BMI, and pointed to BMI as an imperfect way to measure body fat in multiple groups, given that it does not account for differences across racial or ethnic groups, sexes, genders, and age span.
00:43:45.000Given the findings reports, the new policy supports AMA in educating physicians on the issues with BMI and alternative measures for diagnosing obesity.
00:43:53.000So, they're saying now we need to use more sophisticated measures of measuring body fat, for example.
00:44:00.000They say that it should be used in conjunction now with other valid measures of risk, such as, but not limited to, measurements of visceral fat, body adiposity index, body composition relative fat mass, waist circumference, genetic metabolic factors.
00:44:11.000The policy noted BMI is significantly correlated with the amount of fat mass in the general population.
00:44:16.000But it loses predictability when applied on the individual level, right?
00:44:18.000That would be the thing that I'm talking about here, where if you're an NFL player and you're a running back and you're 5'9", 200, it's gonna rate you as obese.
00:44:25.000Okay, but how many of the people actually being rated by BMI are NFL players?
00:45:08.000How about we all eat healthier and we go work out instead of ripping on the metric that is being used as sort of a rough and ready way for doctors to tell you that you need to go work out and stop eating so much cake?
00:45:17.000The AMA Council on Science and Public Health, here is their statement, quote, So, um, I'm confused.
00:45:21.000So if you have a BMI of 30 and you're black, does this make you not fat?
00:45:23.000because of A, eugenics behind the history of BMI, of the use of BMI for racist exclusion,
00:45:28.000and C, BMI cutoffs are based on the imagined ideal Caucasian and does not consider a person's gender or ethnicity.
00:45:52.000But the idea that BMI as a tool is racist in and of itself is really, really silly.
00:45:57.000According to the Daily Mail, recent evidence suggests that people of Asian descent are just as prone to certain conditions like type 2 diabetes at a lower BMI of around 20, which is considered normal For other races, similarly, diabetes is two to four times more prevalent and more deadly in Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans, and one-size-fits-all screening based on non-Hispanic white bodies is highly likely to result in under-diagnosis of the disease.
00:46:17.000Now again, I'm not against doctors using further tools, but the idea that BMI itself is racist is really, really silly.
00:46:26.000And in the vast majority of cases, what's happening here is not that the AMA is deeply concerned about underdiagnosis of diabetes.
00:46:31.000What they're really concerned about is, again, too many people from each group are being considered fat under the BMI stats, and that's a problem.
00:46:42.000So, another excuse for quote-unquote fat positivity is probably the best way to read all this.
00:46:46.000Again, if we're just talking about adding more information to the medical system, I'm totally fine with that.
00:46:51.000You know, better individual treatment of patients is totally a wonderful and fine thing.
00:46:55.000But it seems to me that much of what is driving the AMA these days is an attempt to getting good with the woke crowd.
00:47:00.000Whether it's the AMA declaring that gender-affirming healthcare is actually the gold standard in the United States while Europe basically bans it, or whether you're talking about BMI suddenly becoming racist because there are too many people who are being categorized as overweight or obese from cultures that, or from races that are non-white.
00:47:18.000Meanwhile, in other things that I hate today, Rashida Tlaib, who is a horrible person and one of the worst idiots in the American Congress, she is now out there urging eco-activists to be much more aggressive, which is just what we need.
00:47:31.000We need more people gluing themselves to objects.
00:48:02.000We need more crazy activism from the eco-activists, which is apparently what is happening with regard to these climate activists, who are now going after Monet paintings.
00:49:01.000And the notion that if you glue yourself to a painting and shout about the wetlands that this is somehow going to fix the climate is really, really, really stupid.
00:49:07.000But, you know, stupidity is what rules in this day and age.
00:49:11.000Alrighty folks, the rest of the show is continuing right now.